Song of Songs 3:6

World English Bible (2000)

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

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  • Song 8:5 : 5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
  • Song 1:13 : 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
  • Song 4:6 : 6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
  • Song 4:12-14 : 12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain. 13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, 14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
  • Song 5:13 : 13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
  • Exod 13:21-22 : 21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night: 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.
  • Exod 30:34 : 34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Take to yourself sweet spices, gum resin, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be an equal weight;
  • Deut 8:2 : 2 You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
  • Song 1:3 : 3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
  • Isa 43:19 : 19 Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
  • Jer 2:2 : 2 "Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
  • Jer 31:2 : 2 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
  • Joel 2:29-31 : 29 And also on the servants and on the handmaids in those days, I will pour out my Spirit. 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.
  • Matt 2:11 : 11 They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
  • Acts 2:18-21 : 18 Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. 19 I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and billows of smoke. 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place. 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish; 16 to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
  • Col 3:1-2 : 1 If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
  • Rev 5:8 : 8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
  • Rev 12:6 : 6 The woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that there they may nourish her one thousand two hundred sixty days.
  • Rev 12:14 : 14 Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 4:6
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    6 Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

  • Song 8:4-5
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    4 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

    5 Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.

  • Song 1:12-14
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    12 While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

    13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.

    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover

  • Song 3:2-5
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    2 I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

    4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.

    5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

  • Prov 7:17-18
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    17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

    18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

  • Song 1:2-5
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    2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

    3 Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.

    4 Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. Friends We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.

    5 I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.

  • Song 6:1-2
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    1 Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? Beloved

    2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

  • Song 6:10
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    10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

  • Song 5:1-2
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    1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved

    2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."

  • Song 2:7-10
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    7 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

    8 The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping on the mountains, skipping on the hills.

    9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

    10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, "Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

  • Song 4:13-16
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    76%

    13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

    14 spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices,

    15 a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon. Beloved

    16 Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits. Lover

  • Song 4:10
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    10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

  • Song 5:13
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    13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

  • Song 8:14
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    14 Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

  • Song 4:8
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    8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

  • Song 5:9
    75%

    9 How is your beloved better than another beloved, you fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, that you do so adjure us? Beloved

  • Song 7:6
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    6 How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights!

  • Song 2:13
    75%

    13 The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." Lover

  • Song 5:16
    74%

    16 His mouth is sweetness; yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem. Friends

  • Song 1:7-9
    3 verses
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    7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover

    8 If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

    9 I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.

  • Song 7:10-13
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    10 I am my beloved's. His desire is toward me.

    11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.

    12 Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.

    13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance. At our doors are all kinds of precious fruits, new and old, which I have stored up for you, my beloved.

  • Ps 45:8
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    8 All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

  • Song 6:4
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    4 You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners.

  • Song 5:5
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    5 I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.

  • Song 3:7
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    7 Behold, it is Solomon's carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel.

  • Song 3:10-11
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    10 He made its pillars of silver, its bottom of gold, its seat of purple, its midst being paved with love, from the daughters of Jerusalem.

    11 Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart. Lover